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At the ISHS Board meeting in March this year, the Board confirmed the decision of the ISHS Council in Portugal in 2010 on the venue for IHC2018. The XXX International Horticultural Congress will be convened in Istanbul, Turkey from 12th to 16th August, 2018. We wish our colleagues in Turkey all success and invite all members of ISHS to promote and fully support this event – www.ihc2018.org
XIV International Asparagus Symposium
Potsdam, Germany, 3-6 September 2017
The second announcement is now online, including all information on the 'Program', 'Excursion and Post tour', 'Registration fees' and more. The second announcement can be found at http://www.ias2017potsdam.org/wp-content/uploads/Second_Announcement_IAS_2017.pdf
Chronica Horticulturae Volume 57 Number 1 (March 2017) is available for download - proceed to http://www.ishs.org/chronica-horticulturae/vol57nr1 and login with your ISHS membership account credentials.
Topics in this number include:
News & Views from the Board
IV International Symposium on Pomegranate and Minor Mediterranean Fruits
Elche (Valencia), Spain, 18-22 September 2017
Due to numerous requests for an extension of the deadline for the call of abstracts for the V International Symposium on Pomegranate and Minor Mediterranean Fruits in Elche (Spain) 2017, the organizing committee has decided to make an extension! If you still have not done it, we invite you to give your contribution to this important event.
Call for abstracts
XIII International Symposium Plant Bioregulators in Fruit Production
Chiba 27-30 August 17
#bioregFP2017
http://www.ishs.org/symposium/508
Dear Guava and other Myrtaceae Crops Researchers,
Call for abstracts:
I International Symposium on Bonsai
Taichung, Taiwan, 4-7 November 2017
#bonsai2017
Final call for abstracts
International Symposium on Greener Cities for More Efficient Ecosystem Services in a Climate Changing World
Bologna, Italy, 12-15 September 2017 - #GreenCities2017
2nd Announcement
VII International Symposium Almonds & Pistachios
Adelaide, Australia, 5-9 November 2017 #ISAP2017
Save the date: IX International Symposium on New Ornamental Crops
Mexico - September 2019
#newornamentals2019
http://www.ishs.org/symposium/626
V International Symposium on Papaya
Mérida Yucatán, Mexico, 24-27 October 2017
The deadline for Abstract submission has been extended!
New Deadline: 30 May 2017. The direct link for submitting your abstract is: http://www.actahort.org/members/symposiar?nr=582
Also, all information on the symposium has been updated on the symposium website.
Below you can already find some information on the Topics and the Confirmed Speakers.
VIII International Cherry Symposium-Final extension of the deadline for abstract submission
New abstract submission deadline: March 31st. This is the final extension of the deadline for abstract submission.
Please make sure that the deadline for the presenting author registration is April 10th. For more information about the symposium, please go to http://www.ishs.org/symposium/503
Climate change is affecting security of food production because of severe fluctuations in the world's weather. Many rare and endemic species are threatened by climate change. In situ conservation on its own cannot guarantee the survival of many endangered plant species. Therefore, in order to achieve the goal of conservation, simultaneous ex situ and in situ conservation is needed. Knowledge of plant micropropagation is very useful for developing several techniques for short/medium and long term conservation, such as slow growth storage and cryopreservation.
Over the past two decades, Georgia has become one of the largest producers of cultivated blueberries in the United States. As production expanded, several new blueberry yield/quality reducing diseases emerged. The most recent notable disease was Exobasidium leaf and fruit spot, caused by the newly described fungal pathogen Exobasidium maculosum. Although leaf spotting and quality-reducing green spots on fruit had been noted in producer fields for many years prior, it was considered more of a curiosity and not determined to be a production issue.
Check out the new issue of eJHS online at http://www.pubhort.org/ejhs/ (Volume 82, issue 1, February 2017) including the following articles:
Microorganisms responsible for tomato deterioration were studied using standard microbiological methods, while effects on antioxidant bioactive compounds were analysed from lipophilic and hydrophilic extracts. Fungal species of Penicillium sp., Aspergillus niger and yeast sp. (Candida sp.) with total load from 3.90*103 to 9.02*107 CFU g-1 FW, and bacterial species of Enterobacter sakazakii, Acinetobacter iwoffii, Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Klebsiella planticola, Pantoea agglomerans, Pseudomonas aeroginosa and Chromobacterium sp.
The latest newsletter of the ISHS Section on Tropical and Subtropical Fruits is available for download from the Section home page: http://www.ishs.org/tropical-and-subtropical-fruits
Check out the new issue of Fruits - The International Journal of Tropical and Subtropical Horticulture online at http://www.pubhort.org/fruits/ (Volume 72, issue 1, January/February 2017).
VII International Conference on Managing Quality in Chains (MQUIC2017) and II International Symposium on Ornamentals in association with XIII International Protea Research Symposium
Stellenbosch, South Africa, 4-7 September 2017
Abstract submission is open. More information on the symposium can be found at http://www.ishs.org/symposium/511 and on the symposium website.
Electrical capacitance, inductance, and impedance (0.012, 0.05, 0.1, 0.2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 and 200 kHz) were measured, for predicting the water content of lime, with a coefficient of determination of 0.9 and measuring uncertainty of 1.8%. The results demonstrated the feasibility of the method.
Ho Thanh Huong won an ISHS student award for the best poster at the III International Conference on Agricultural and Food Engineering (CAFEi) in Malaysia in August 2016.
VIII International Cherry Symposium - New deadline Abstract submission + early bird registration deadline is approaching!
The deadline for Abstract submission for 'VIII International Cherry Symposium has been prolonged! Early bird registration has NOT been prolonged.
New abstract submission deadline: March 15, 2017
Do not miss the early bird registration deadline of February 15, 2017.
For more information about the symposium, please go to http://www.ishs.org/symposium/503
Shuyang Zhen received her BSc in Landscape Gardening at Huazhong Agricultural University, China in 2011. Shuyang then went to graduate school at the University of Maine, USA and completed an MSc in Horticulture in 2013. Her Master's research, under the direction of Dr. Stephanie Burnett, focused on improving irrigation efficiency for the production of ornamental plants. Shuyang is currently studying for her PhD under the direction of Dr. Marc van Iersel (lab website: http://hortphys.uga.edu) at the University of Georgia.
Machel A. Emanuel received a BSc in Zoology and Botany, an MSc in Plant Production and Protection, and is currently a PhD candidate in Horticulture at the University of the West Indies. His area of research is on the postharvest physiology and biochemistry of tropical fruits.
Machel A. Emanuel won an ISHS student award for the best oral presentation at the III All Africa Horticultural Congress in Nigeria in August 2016.
The rising concept of ecosystem service has highlighted the importance of non-marketed performances delivered by ecosystems. In fruit production, providing acceptable food production levels while preserving natural resources and functions is currently a major challenge, and can be analyzed from the ecosystem service concept perspective. Apple orchards appear to be an interesting study field, as perennial production strongly impacts biogeochemical cycles and pest management within apple orchards deals with both market regulations and reduced use of pesticides.
Flower fertilization and fruit set success in apples depend on the behavior of the pollen tube growth, namely, the pollen tube length after pollination and the time taken to reach the base of the style. Predicting these characteristics will assist in controlling the crop load, by permitting the fertilization of the desired number of flowers and discarding the rest by the use of chemicals which inhibit pollen tube growth prior to fertilization. The main factors affecting pollen tube growth rates are temperature and the resistance of the style tissue.
Olaoluwa Omoniyi Olarewaju obtained his BAgric (Hort) from the Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta, Nigeria. He is currently a Doctoral Fellow at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. His research focuses on identifying pre-symptomatic bio-markers and non-destructive prediction of physiological rind disorders of citrus fruit with a view to identifying innovative techniques of managing postharvest losses in the fresh fruit industry.
Carnations that have various petal colors have been generated not only by conventional cross breeding, but also by bud sport. Flower color mutation by bud sport is thought to occur as a result of periclinal chimaeras or transposons, however, the mechanism is still unknown. To elucidate the mechanism of flower color mutation by bud sport, I used a mutant cultivar group (MINAMI series) showing various petal colors, which had occurred by bud sport. The MINAMI series includes 10 commercial cultivars showing cyanic or acyanic flowers that originated from a pale yellow-flowered genotype.
The 4th international "Fascination of Plants Day" 2017 http://www.plantday.org/ on May 18th 2017 will be launched under the umbrella of the European Plant Science Organisation (EPSO)
The important role of cuticular waxes in the defense systems of plants is undeniable. However, very little is known about the chemistry of cuticular wax in the genus Fragaria L. The epicuticular wax crystal morphology was determined using scanning electron microscopy. A wide range of different structures were described. Twelve strawberry genotypes, including ten wild species, one cultivar and one hybrid after wild species introgression, covered the detected range of epicuticular crystal structures.
The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of ethylene absorber (EA) on the postharvest life of bananas. EA could delay the senescence of bananas by reducing ethylene concentrations in storage chambers. Bananas selected for the study were at mature-green stage 2 of ripening, according to the banana ripeness chart (Postharvest Technology Center, UC Davis). Fruit were stored in the presence or absence of sachets of Ethyl Stopper (Bioconservacion S.A., Spain) containing KMnO4 at 20 or 14°C, and 95% relative humidity for 16 days.
The EU-funded research project GoodBerry (www.goodberry-eu.eu) aims to further improve our knowledge of the procedures that facilitate and accelerate the development of well-accepted, desirable and high-quality berry fruits – even under non-favourable growth conditions such as high temperatures.
Check out the new issue of eJHS online at http://www.pubhort.org/ejhs/ (Volume 81, issue 6, December 2016) including the following articles:
Chronica Horticulturae Volume 56 Number 4 (December 2016) is available for download - proceed to http://www.ishs.org/chronica-horticulturae/vol56nr4 and login with your ISHS membership account credentials.
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News & Views from the Board
Happy Holidays.
As the year draws to a close, we are once again reminded of all things for which we are grateful. Our relationship with you, ISHS members, readers, symposium delegates, researchers and institutions all over the world is one of the things we value greatly.
The ISHS Board, Executive Committee, Council, together with the ISHS Secretariat staff wish to thank you for giving us the opportunity to serve you this past year.
All of us at ISHS wish you and yours a Happy Holiday and much success in the New Year!
We'd like to thank all our members for your continued support and wish you all the best for the new year; may 2017 be a successful and prosperous year for you and your family! Together with our members, ISHS is achieving great things for our profession and the scientific community as a whole.
With renewal time now upon us, we warmly invite you to check your membership status and renew your membership with ISHS should you not already have done so.
Dear friends,
I am very sorry to pass on this sad news from our Israeli colleague Yuval Cohen.
Call for Abstracts!
Registration is now open!
Dear Colleagues,
The VIII International Cherry Symposium will be held at Yamagata, Japan, from 5 to 9 June 2017, Cherry2017 will provide a good opportunity for scientists, students, growers, and cherry industries to present and share their latest findings and knowledge on cherries. We hope the symposium will show you the traditional and new styles of cherry production in Japan, and promote the exchange of ideas and international collaboration among people involved in the cherry industry and research worldwide.
This research is focused on a new aquaponic system. In principal, aquaponics is the combined production of fish and plants by using the nutrient rich fish water for plant nutrition. Therefore, aquaponics is a system for sustainable food production, especially based on lowering water consumption and associated environmental pollution. Single recirculating aquaponic systems (SRAPS) are well known systems.
Nitrogen status is a well-known key factor for adventitious root formation of ornamental cuttings. Even a slight nitrogen deficiency of stock plants impairs subsequent rooting of cuttings, whereas a surplus can either decrease or increase it. The effect of nitrogen surplus depends on carbohydrate reserves at harvest date and current photosynthetic activity of cuttings during rooting. However, nitrogen status of cuttings cannot be used as parameter for quality assessment of cuttings yet, because established wet-chemical methods are too time-consuming and labor intensive.
Check out the new issue of eJHS online at http://www.pubhort.org/ejhs/ (Volume 81, issue 5, October 2016) including the following articles:
The International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS) has just recently launched its young minds project www.ishs.org/youngminds which consists of initiatives such as a Questionnaire and an Ideas Contest both specifically targeting students and young scientists.
By Gerald Schmilewski, President of the IPS and member of our ISHS Working Group Growing Media
The 15th International Peat Congress, with 1,000 participants was excellently organized by the National Committee of the IPS in Kuching, Borneo.
Kuching has a newly built Tropical Peat Research Institute and Borneo has extensive peatlands. They are mainly used as oil palm plantations and agriculture.
The water status of trees can be estimated using Granier-type thermal dissipation probes. However, the method requires determining the maximum temperature gradient (∆Tmax) between the heated probe and the reference probe below. By analyzing the effects of different ∆Tmax determination approaches on sapflow density estimations, the uncertainty of sapflow calculations, which is related to the raw signal processing, was quantified.
With the recent addition of the Journal Fruits to the ISHS publications portfolio, ISHS is pleased to offer all subscribers a special discount. Make sure to contact your library and recommend subscribing to ISHS publications.
The International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS) aims at capturing your creative and forward-directed ideas and thoughts to develop in strong consonance with you some inventive promotional material that encapsulates the many exciting opportunities in horticultural sciences and in engaging with our Society.
ISHS Acta Horticulturae 1123
International Symposium on High Value Vegetables, Root and Tuber Crops, and Edible Fungi Production, Supply and Demands
http://www.actahort.org/books/1123/ #IHC2014
ISHS Acta Horticulturae 1122
III International Conference on Turfgrass Management and Science for Sports Fields
http://www.actahort.org/books/1122/ #IHC2014
Dear all,
The 1st Announcement of the 12th International Mango Symposium is now available at the symposium website - see http://www.ishs.org/symposium/632 for more information.
I would like to remind our prospective delegates the following important details:
1) Abstract submission:
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